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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Believe, Hard Work, Enemy

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2185, Library of Alexandria

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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Doubt, Religion, Atheism

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.977, Library of Alexandria

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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

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Inspiring, Wisdom, Nature

'Some Reasons Why' (1881) pt. 8 'The New Testament' in 'The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll' (1915) vol. 2, p. 315

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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Education, Wisdom, School

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The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

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Atheist, Hands, Religion

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.886, Library of Alexandria

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To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

Robert Green Ingersoll

People

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

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Religion, Atheism, World

Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Atheism, Strange

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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Respect, Rights, Giving

"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll", Vol VII, 2009.

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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Inspirational, Happiness, Depression

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1681, Library of Alexandria

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...in every religion the priest insists on five things -
First: There is a God.
Second: He has made known his will.
Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Messages, Firsts, Failing

Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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Inspirational, Positive, Sports

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

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Believe, Men, Garden

Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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Education, College, Pebbles

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria

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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

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Wisdom, Freedom, Men

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.186, Library of Alexandria

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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

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Lying, Miracle, Facts

Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

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Prayer, Noble, Answers

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4036, Library of Alexandria

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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Doubt, Atheism, Dogma

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The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

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Jesus, Father, Nice

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.776, Library of Alexandria

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

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Freedom, Men, Tyrants

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

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Revenge, Heart, Men

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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

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Too Much, Enough, Ifs

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1014, Library of Alexandria

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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

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Atheist, Ignorance, Religion

Robert Green Ingersoll (1882). “Wit, Wisdom, Eloquence, and Great Speeches of Col. R. G. Ingersoll: Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, Truthful Sayings and Full Reports of the Great Speeches of this Celebrated Man, Together with the Funeral Oration at His Brother's Grave”

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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

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Atheist, Intelligence, Religion

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2336, Library of Alexandria

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Born: August 11, 1833
Died: July 21, 1899
Occupation: Lawyer
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